IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cowpen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007AL129003
  • User Pedon ID: S2007AL129003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19344
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 31.3232231
  • Std. Longitude: -88.2953033
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Vinegar Bend USGS topographic quad
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL129—Washington
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL129—Washington County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sandy Page, Greg Brannon, Joey Koptis, Angela Ward
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, semiactive, thermic Aquic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowpen (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowpen (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aquic Paleudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 203 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Coastal Plain sediments
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Undifferentiated formation of the Miocene (tmu) group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 35
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—203

    —10—

    —193—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    —

    62.5

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    230

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N00116; observed in trench
    Bt—10 to 66 centimeters (3.9 to 26.0 inches); 90 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 medium roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds and 0.2 coarse roots between peds; 3 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 3 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 4 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00117; observed in trench
    Btg—66 to 119 centimeters (26.0 to 46.9 inches); 60 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very slow permeability; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00119; observed in trench
    2Btg1—119 to 155 centimeters (46.9 to 61.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face clay; very slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 5 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 8 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellow (10YR 7/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N00120; observed in trench
    2Btg2—155 to 203 centimeters (61.0 to 79.9 inches); 55 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) crushed clay; structureless massive; very slow permeability; 2 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 7 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 8 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 8 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 20 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2. Lab sample # 08N00121; observed in trench